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s1mplicissimus01/21/20252 repliesview on HN

Things have reached a point that whenever I see "Can AI do X" or "Is AI good at Y", my brain just instantly goes NO. It cannot. NO, it's not good at that. And NO, you shouldn't use it for X. If it could, you would put it in your title. There's probably a term for this kind of weasly almost-statement disguised as honest inquiry that has escaped me. I wonder if anyone else is annoyed by this.


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collingreen01/21/2025

Not sure what a term for the question type is but betteridge's law is essentially what you're saying - if the headline is a question the answer is no because if the answer was yes that would have been a better headline.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...